| A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling Contributor(s): Naipaul, V. S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375707298 ISBN-13: 9780375707292 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2009 Annotation: In A Writer's People, Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul takes us into the process of creative and intellectual assimilation which has shaped both his writing and his life. Naipaul discusses the writers to whom he was exposed early on--Derek Walcott, Gustave Flaubert, and his father, among them--and his first encounters with literary culture. He illuminates the ways in which the writings of Gandhi, Nehru, and other Indian writers both reveal and conceal the authors themselves and their nation. And he brings the same scrutiny to bear on his own life: his early years in Trinidad; the empty spaces in his family history; his ever-evolving reactions to the more complicated India he would encounter for the first time at age thirty. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.50 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: V. S. Naipaul has always faced the challenges of "fitting one civilization to another." In A Writer's People, he takes us into this process of creative and intellectual assimilation, which has shaped both his writing and his life. Naipaul discusses the writers to whom he was exposed early on--Derek Walcott, Gustave Flaubert, and his father, among them--and his first encounters with literary culture. He illuminates the ways in which the writings of Gandhi, Nehru, and other Indian writers both reveal and conceal the authors themselves and their nation. And he brings the same scrutiny to bear on his own life: his early years in Trinidad; the empty spaces in his family history; his ever-evolving reactions to the more complicated India he would encounter for the first time at age thirty. |